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November 1, 2000
I saw Alice Walker speak Sunday night October 22 in Berkeley. She was very sad and
very serious, about the middle east and about the sad state of governance here and there and
everywhere. She read a poem from a woman from Jerusalem, she didn't know if the woman was Israeli
or Palestinian, Arab or Jew. It was called, "Let the women speak", about how men had failed and
should step aside, "it was time to let the women speak." She said it was time for a whole new way
of governing ourselves, the old systems don't work anymore. Borrowing from old Indian customs,
she proposed that we give way to *Grandmother Rule,* where well... grandmothers rule.
She also spoke about the interconnectedness of everything, using a sheet of paper as metaphor...
how with the sun shining on the trees, there would be no trees, no pulp, no paper, the paper
"inter-be" with the sun with the tree, with the logger, with the logger's bread, with the water,
--- how everything, everyone of us "inter-be" with everyone else, with everything else. We are
all connected and all essential, all part of and having parts of each other. It was all very profound. (KPFA at www.KPFA.org has it on audio i believe).
After the election, i want to redirect my energies into this proposal. How can it be made real? Interested parties please go back to the Winona LaDuke page and join the mailing list. We'll network about it.
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